Directory of Camp Ford Resources

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Confederate prison camp operated from 1863 to 1865; it housed 6,000 POWs and is said to be the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi. It is now the site of a historical park.

Resources in This Category

• All Things Historical: Camp Ford, Union Prisoner of War Camp in East Texas.

  http://www.texasescapes.com/DEPARTMENTS/Guest_Columnists/East_Texas_all_things_historical/CampFord1AMD1001.htm
  Newspaper column by Archie McDonald of the East Texas Historical Society.

• Camp Ford Historical Association

  http://www.b17.com/campford2/
  Camp history and information about the independent group's plans to build a historical center across from the Camp Ford site.

• Handbook of Texas: Camp Ford

  http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qcc15
  Brief history of the camp with bibliography.

• Life in a Texas Prison Pen: The 48th Ohio at Camp Ford

  http://www.48ovvi.org/oh48cf.html
  Prisoners' accounts of their experiences, maps and pictures of the camp, and a list of prisoners from the 48th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry.

• Texas Beyond History: Camp Ford

  http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/ford/
  Information on the camp's history and archaeological research, a timeline and pictures from the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin.

• The American Civil War: Camp Ford Prisoner of War Camp

  http://www.mycivilwar.com/pow/tx-camp-ford.html
  History of the camp.

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